In our cluster with PBS batch system (torque) installed, we wish all the users execute their jobs by qsub so that the CPU resources can be well managed. However, it is found that users in our cluster ...

The system has two machines, one (called macondo02) runs pbs_server and pbs_schedule, another (called macondo01) runs pbs_mom. I have ensured that the host can clearly identify the existance of the ...

Is there a way to configure torque to send email notifications on start and end of job array, and not per job, Im managing job arrays of thousands of jobs, and I dont want to get flooded by mails. But ...

I run a moderately sized cluster and I am having a queue problem. For example I have a node with 128GB of memory and a program that I set the amount of memory per core. So for example if I set memory ...

I am using torque 4.0.1 on openSUSE 12.1 in a cluster environment. When I qsub a job (simple as "echo hello"), it remains in 'Q' state, and never gets scheduled. I can force the job to run with qrun, ...

I am currently working on an application which use the accounting logs generated by pbs/torque (by default in $APPHOME/server_priv/accounting).
I would like to now if there is a reliable way to find ...

The cluster resource manager Torque typically allocates compute nodes on an exclusive basis. However, when you have a lot of small jobs (like we do) running against multi-core compute nodes, this can ...

We've been using cron for about as long as I can remember to handle all of our job scheduling needs. Everything from storage clones/snapshots to reports against databases to daily system reports to ...

We upgraded our OS from Debian 5 to Debian 6 and consequently upgraded Torque.
Now qstat and qsub works for about 1 minute and fails for another minute.
I have torque-2.5.5 (but I tried 2.4.8 and it ...

My supercomputing center recently moved from SGE to pbs/Torque. Now, when I schedule my array jobs, only half of the jobs in the array get scheduled. When they finish, the other half get scheduled. ...